Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Billy Firehawk

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete - no evidence provided for claims made in the article, thus fails WP:V - Yomangani^talk 10:43, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Billy Firehawk

A contested prod. Original rationale for deletion was "Recommending deletion. Possible attack page.". Prod removed with rationale "he deserves and article, he is an important piece of wrestling history, long live billy whatshisname". Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 16:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

• keep. Not really an attack page. It needs clean-up, but it seems to be a typical professional wrestling bio page. I don;t know much about wrestling, but maybe the folks at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Professional_wrestling can take a look at it and improve it. Really, its a weak article, but has potential. --Jayron32 03:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Non-notable wrestling promoter. If the article is weak as it stands, we shouldn't have rely on the hope that folks at some Wikiproject will fix it up. For a good article on wrestling, see the one on Ron Killings. This Billy Firehawk article is only three sentences, and the last of them is an unsupported speculation that could be defamatory (but we're not sure). Delete. EdJohnston 03:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
  • reply Well, I'm not really much of a wrestling fan, but the fact that the article is poorly written does NOT automatically make the subject not notable. It makes the article a stub that needs expansion, but for all I know, the subject MAY be notable. The subject of professional wrestling is notable, so widely-known participants thereof are by extension notable. That's why I suggested bringing it to the attention of the WikiProject. If the subject is not-notable, someone there can let us know. --Jayron32 04:00, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as apparently insufficiently notable per WP:BIO. More importantly, article provides no sources whatsoever, much less credible, third-party ones as required by WP:V. A quick Google search turned up only 145 unique GHits, almost all blogs and Wiki-mirrors. His real name appears to be William Hawkins, and, on a sad note, it looks as though he may have passed away several months ago, although I was not able to find a reliable source to confirm that. --Satori Son 01:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, MER-C 10:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Notable wrestling promoter, also has notability from Lex Luger viral video. Cornerbock 12:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: I actually spent some time and effort on this one, and I was unable to find any "reputable, reliable, third-party sources" as required by Wikipedia:Verifiability. If you have found some, please cite here or in the article and I will be the first to admit my mistake and change my opinion. Otherwise, asserted notability cannot be confirmed and the article should be deleted. Thanks, Satori Son 13:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.